Superfamily Plectopyloidea Möllendorff, 1898

Content

Plectopylidae Möllendorff, 1898 .

Remarks

Plectopylidae, Corillidae Pilsbry, 1905 and Sculptariidae Degner, 1923 have been assigned to the superfamily Plectopyloidea by Bouchet et al. (2005, 2017). However, Schileyko (1999) had previously moved Sculptariidae to the superfamily Acavoidea Pilsbry, 1894 . Schileyko also treated Corillidae as the closest relative of Plectopylidae (both Plectopyloidea). Although only limited molecular data is available, the conchologically very similar Corillidae are probably not closely related to Plectopylidae (Raheem et al. 2017) . Therefore, the Corillidae and the similar Sculptaridae are excluded from the superfamily Plectopyloidea herein.